Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-12-08
THE EVENINGS NEWS
At Home and Abroad.

The Woonsocket schools have all been
closed on account of contagious diseases.
Four men were instantly killed and three
seriously injured by the falling of water
tower at Townsville, Ga, on Tuesday.
The first steam m-heated train of palace cars
was run Wednesday over the New York
Central Railroad as far Albany and re-
turn.
Three days of heavy sea at Cony Island
has done Sl500oo damage to beach and
buildings. Hotel Brighton is almost COM
pletely ruined.
L. $. Marshal, at Trenton. n. j., has ap-
pointed his daughter, Alphonsine, rs his
deputy. She is just out of her teens, pretty
and smart.
A military council will he held Thursday
at Vienna TO consider the steps to be taken
in view of the massing of Russian troops on
the frontier.
A London dispatch saws: The royal mail
steamer, Isle of Panay, lis ashore nine miles
north of Sagresportagal. Seven of the crew
were drowned.
/ The stock. barns and tobacco sheds Of
Randolph Griswold at Windsor, Conn, were
burned Tuesday night, The loss is about
i $500 and il is only partly insured.
! Geo. Gould was in conference in New
York Tuesday with the President of the
4 Dcaycr 4 Rio Grande railroad. on the sub
I ject of securing than for the Missouri Pacific.
! Among party of excursionists which left
/ New y ork ON "Wednesday for Los Angeles
were Chas. Wells of Portland, and Mrs.
VIM. A. Hall and Miss Lizzie Dinsmore of
/ Bar Harbor.
! Professor Feuebresque's School of Lam
| guagcs at Newport, r. L., was broken into
Monday night and S2S5 stolen. Virgin
jackson Young colored man, has been ar
rested ON suspicion.
The four story brick building at "a Me-
chanic street Hartford, Conn, was burned
Wednesday morning. Ii was occupied by a
II number of manufacturing concerns. The
total loss is $4,000 and it is fully insured.
| Representations have -beens made to the
| Dominion government by the Washington
1 authorities that thousands of Chinese are
smugged into the United States from Brit
ish Columbia. Assimilation of immigration
and opium laws are proposed.
! The citizens of Nashua, n. H., are excited
over three incendiary fires Tuesday night
which kept the fire department duty until
early "Wednesday morning. The damage
| in each case was not very heavy, the flames
being promptly discovered. The police are
]
| Mr.. Franklin Gibbs. one of Livermore's
widely known aud respected citizens, died
very suddenly about ten o'clock Wednesday
forenoon, of hemorrhage of the stomach.
| Mr.. Gibbs was a very benevolent old gentle
man and highly esteemed by his townsmen.
lie one of family of thirteen children.
! His age was 6s years.
| The New York express for Montreal, con-
] d a w hos mn
a sleeping car, ran of the track at Whallons-
/ burgh. early Wednesday morning. The bag
! gage cars and one of the coaches caught fire,
which was communicated TO the depot and
/ that building and the cars were entirely de-
stroyed. No one was injured.
! There is strong sentiment growing among
the barbed wire manufacturers of Joliet ILL.,,
which is shared by some of the manufacture
crs in St Louis and other western cities
| against paving royalty to Washburn and
Moen Worcester, Mass, while so many un-
licensed firms are allowed to run and pay no
royalty, and it is the intention to form pool
and contest the validity of the patent.
| j. b. Mcdonnell a brother of George
Mcdonnell, the notorious couDterfeiter, 10
under arrest at San Francisco for obtaining
! from an cngraver a block of bank of Eng
land five pound note. Mcdonnell asked an
/
an advertisement of patent medicine. Nc
/ ponnells brother with A. b. Bidwell, swim
died the bank of England out of over a mil
1 lion dollars in 1873.
| The annual meeting of the Portland 4
Rochester railroad was held, Wednesd sday
| forenoon. The report shows the road in a
\ in prosperous condition. The total trans-
portation earnings were Sl9G,275 total gross
earnings, Sl97 ,597; operating expenses,
Sl53,973 net earnings, Si3,62l. The old
board of directors was elected with the ex-
ception of j. T. Baxter of Portland, in place
of Richard Olney of Boston.
Manager Clinton of the Manchester Base
Ball Association has signed the veteran Jack
Nelson of the Metropolitans for short stop
and field captain, who held third place among
eleven short stops of the American associa-
ton and was eighteenth among the batters.
He has also signed kinsman to play second
base who led the batting of the Southern
League with first base batting average of
51l. This gives eight men, none of whom
have batting average of less than 37l.
| The London Telegraph speaks of Presi-
dent Clevcland's argument recommending
the abolishment of the wool tariff and asks
\ Is he sure that it is to wool tariff alone that
argument applies? Is he certain that there
are not large numbers, not perhaps in farm
| ing but in the wage earning classes. in
America, who lose more by enhanced prices
of the neccssarics of life that they gain BY
an increase in wages by the protection of in
dustries on which they are employedl This
is question which free traders will ask and
which also American statesmen NAV hear ad-
dressed to them by their countrymen in q
different tone.